This is the moment a snake expert is lowered into a 60-feet well to rescue a stranded cobra. <br /><br />Hanging inside the well, the rescuer battled to rescue the stressed snake, which tried to take repeated swipes at him.<br /><br />The incident occurred at Kasar Pimpa village in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra, India, on November 14. <br /><br />The Wildlife Rescue Society, Ahmednagar, received a call from a farmer in the village that a snake had fallen into his agricultural well. <br /><br />The cobra had tried to climb up the well on its own. But it had got stranded halfway through as the walls got steeper and smoother.<br /><br />A rescue team rushed to the spot and Nawaz Shaikh, 24, volunteered to go down the well. <br /><br />Hanging inside with the help of a climbing harness, Nawaz tried to pluck the cobra from the wall with a snake stick. <br /><br />But the manoeuvre failed as the snake slipped and fell into the water. <br /><br />Then Nawaz further went down to the water and managed to capture the cobra. <br /><br />Akash Jadhav, who led the rescue team, said: “This was a challenge as the snake had taken refuge in the wall of the well. Rescue is much easier when the snake is in water.” <br /><br />The cobra was later released in a nearby forest.
